Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne)
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Some of them were dreamers
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And some of them were fools
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Who were making plans and thinking of the future
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With the energy of the innocent
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They were gathering the tools
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They would need to make their journey back to nature
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While the sand slipped through the opening
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And their hands reached for the golden ring
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With their hearts they turned to each other's heart for refuge
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In the troubled years that came before the deluge
Some of them knew pleasure
And some of them knew pain
And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered
And on the brave and crazy wings of youth
They went flying around in the rain
And their feathers, once so fine, grew torn and tattered
And in the end they traded their tired wings
For the resignation that living brings
And exchanged loves bright and fragile glow
For the glitter and the rouge
And in the moment they were swept before the deluge
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Now let the music keep our spirits high
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And let the buildings keep our children dry
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Let creation reveal its secrets by and by
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By and by--
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When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky
Some of them were angry
At the way the earth was abused
By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power
And they struggled to protect her from them
Only to be confused
By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour
And when the sand was gone and the time arrived
In the naked dawn only a few survived
And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge
Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge
Now let the music keep our spirits high
And let the buildings keep our children dry
Let creation reveal its secrets by and by
By and by--
When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky